So is the rotation Bello, Crawford, Pivetta, Houck, Whitlock right now, with the depth being Fitts and Weissert?
I don’t think any of those five starters are bad, and I’m actually pretty bullish on Crawford, but I think Houck and Whitlock are better off in the pen. There’s going to be a lot of innings on the bullpen this season. If we’re not going to add Montgomery, then we might as well pick up some scrap heap guy like Kluber, and force him to throw 100+ pitches each start. Who cares if he puts up an 8.79 ERA or whatever.
Honestly would not be shocked if we added Bauer at this point. Horrible person, but will probably give you 150-180 innings for ~$1M